"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone.  Probably published in 1944 by 
Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 482-483.
Used by permission.  [Franklin]

JUDGE GEORGE S. WILSON, SR.:  This eminent jurist and Christian 
gentleman was born, the son of William and Martha A. Wilson, at 
Caseyville, Union County, Kentucky, on November 14, 1876.  His father 
was proprietor of the hotel in that place for some time.  Here young 
Wilson spent part of his boyhood.  The family later moved to 
Henderson, Kentucky, where he grew to manhood.  After attending the 
public schools at hand our subject entered Cumberland University, 
Lebanon, Tennessee, where he aspired to enter the profession of law.  
He graduated from this institution with the degree of LL.B. in 1900 
and soon thereafter was admitted to the bar.
	He began the practice of his chosen profession at Sturgis, 
Kentucky, where he was later induced to run for the Kentucky House of 
Representatives.  His political venture was successful and he served 
in that capacity from 1906 to 1912.  After being elected for the 
third term, in the fall of 1909, he returned to Frankfort a few 
months later and was elected speaker of the session of 1910, the 
fifty-ninth man to preside over the lower house.  A few days after 
the 1910 session ended the Wilson family moved to Owensboro, Daviess 
County, Kentucky, where he opened up his law office.  From the year 
1913 to 1917 he served as City Attorney of Owensboro.
	From 1921 to 1940 he served as Circuit Judge of the Sixth 
Judicial District, being reelected to that position on two different 
occasions.  After returning to private law practice with his two sons 
for a time he was elected as Chairman of the Public Service 
Commission of the State of Kentucky by Governor Keen Johnson in 1942 
and since that time has made his home in Frankfort, Kentucky.
	Judge Wilson was united in marriage to Miss Virginia L. McGill 
of Wheatcroft, Webster County, Kentucky, on June 5, 1901.  They are 
the parents of four sons and one daughter.  Two of the sons, George S. 
Jr. and William L. have followed in the footsteps of their father in 
the practice of law.
	In the year 1917 Judge Wilson was elected as Superintendent of 
the Sunday School of the First Baptist Church in Owensboro.  He 
continued to hold this position for twenty-five years and in that 
time the Sunday School grew to be one of the largest and most 
efficient in the entire State.  After his removal to Frankfort his 
son, George S. Wilson, Jr., was elected to take his place.  After 
being elected as Assistant Moderator of the Daviess County Baptist 
Association in the years 1924 and 1925 he was elected to serve as 
Moderator, in the years 1926-1927, of the Daviess-McLean Association, 
as the Association changed its name the first year he was elected.  
He filled the position with honor to the body and to himself.
	Judge Wilson is an outstanding example of a man who has put 
Christian principles into practice in his political as well as his 
individual life.  He is held in high respect by all who know him and 
it is the sincere feeling of all that he will continue successful in 
life in whatever position he occupies.

Wilson Johnson McGill
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Caseyville-Union-KY Henderson-Henderson-KY TN Wheatcroft-Webster-KY

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